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Proprietors of stock entitled to tolls &c. 28 herein.
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XXXVI. And be it enacted, That the respective proprietors of the said joint stock, their executors, administrators, or assigns, shall be entitled to the tolls, duties, and profits hereby vested in the said commissioners and their successors, in proportion to their respective shares of, and interest in the said joint stock of the said company, subject to such charges as the said commissioners or their successors, or a quorum of them shall think sit, to make for the completing, preserving, or repairing the said intended bridge, and for the other purposes by this act authorized; and that the clear profits which shall arise from the tolls and duties hereby granted, or so much thereof as by the said commissioners, or their successors, or a quorum of them, shall be deemed expedient and proper, shall on each first day of May, and first day of November, or within twenty-one days after the said respective days, be paid to and amongst the respective proprietors of the said joint stock, in proportion to their respective shares and interests therein; and that the said proprietors interest in the said joint stock, shall be deemed and adjudged in all courts of law and equity, to be personal and not real estate; and that no person being or becoming a subscriber for carrying on the said work, or a proprietor of part of the said joint stock, shall thereby be liable to be a bankrupt within the meaning of any law concerning bankrupts; nor shall the capital stock of the said company, or the interest of any member or members therein, be liable to any foreign attachment.
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